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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Steve?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver's brother.
(b) Barbara Kingsolver's traveling partner.
(c) Camille's father.
(d) Camille's cousin.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver want her daughter to learn at the Heard Museum?
(a) To respect the mysteries of life and death.
(b) To pay attention to art work.
(c) To appreciate Native Americans' culture.
(d) To see from outside of her own culture.

3. What information does Barbara Kingsolver say the Pentagon suppressed?
(a) Number of Americans killed.
(b) Numbers of Iraqi war dead.
(c) Number of oil wells captured by Americans.
(d) Number of soldiers in Iraq.

4. When does Barbara Kingsolver say Camille feels bad about being from a divorced home?
(a) When people say they feel bad for her.
(b) When she wakes up in the night with nightmares.
(c) When mothers won't let their children play with her.
(d) When her mother is late to pick her up from school.

5. What is Somba the birthplace of, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Religion.
(b) Blues.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Voodoo.

6. What was unique about Haleakala?
(a) The volcano created its own climate.
(b) The beach had pink sand.
(c) The road was extremely windy.
(d) The restaurant served fish that only lived in the lake in that volcano.

7. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1964.

8. What did Barbara Kingsolver build behind her house?
(a) A pond.
(b) A dog run.
(c) A garden.
(d) An outhouse.

9. Where is the Heard Museum?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Tenerife.
(d) Tucson.

10. What instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?
(a) Clarinet.
(b) Pan pipes.
(c) Drums.
(d) Piano.

11. What does Barbara Kingsolver say could be purchased at Turner's General Store?
(a) Worms.
(b) Hunting licenses.
(c) Lumber.
(d) Beer.

12. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?
(a) Nature preserves were established.
(b) The silverwood trade was regulated.
(c) Silverwood went extinct.
(d) By harsh fines for poachers.

13. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?
(a) Political activism.
(b) He was her editor.
(c) Love of nature.
(d) She got pregnant.

14. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Flawed protagonists.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Violence.

15. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?
(a) Trombone.
(b) Violin.
(c) Keyboard.
(d) Flute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?

3. In essay 16: 'Postcards from an Imaginary Mom', how long was Barbara Kingsolver on book tour for?

4. How would Barbara Kingsolver answer this question?

5. What kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?

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